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Definition of dodo in English: dodonounPlural dodos, Plural dodoes ˈdəʊdəʊˈdoʊdoʊ 1A large extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century. Raphus cucullatus, family Raphidae. See also solitaire (sense 4) Example sentencesExamples - The dodo species consisted of three flightless branches - the dodo of Mauritius, the solitaire of Reunion island, and the Rodriguez solitaire that lived on tiny Rodriguez island.
- The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
- One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird.
- First described by explorers around 1600, the dodo was extinct fewer than 80 years later.
- A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
- 1.1informal An old-fashioned and ineffective person.
dodos do enter the events, they just never make the finals Synonyms fogy, conservative, traditionalist, conformist
Phrases (as) dead as a (or the) dodo 1informal Completely dead or extinct. - 1.1No longer effective, valid, or interesting.
the campaign was as dead as a dodo Example sentencesExamples - What does he say now that the social entrepreneur scheme is as dead as a dodo?
- In fact, the upstairs bar was as dead as a dodo, but the downstairs bar, facing the diners, was even more convenient.
- Underlying this evolution of a new journalistic hybrid is the conviction that traditional photojournalism, as practiced since the days of Matthew Brady, is as dead as the dodo.
- I feel full-blown £20,000-a-year constables are not going to be widely used on foot patrols because top brass officers think that type of policing is dead as the dodo.
- Thank God the idea of regional assemblies is now as dead as a dodo.
- Dreams of a secular India, where the commanding heights of the economy are in the public sector, are as dead as a dodo.
- Besides far-fetched ideas like taxing everyone for authors rights, or technically blocking filesharing, or a major government crackdown on filesharing, the story is basically dead as a dodo.
- It was a final flurry worth waiting for and made all the more remarkable after a dead as a dodo first half.
- Also bear in mind that this region is as dead as a dodo at night.
- While the League's television bid might now be as dead as a dodo, there are some vital facts that any future television deal-makers will find interesting to pore over.
Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese doudo 'simpleton' (because the bird had no fear of man and was easily killed). Compare with dotterel. The dodo was a large, heavily built flightless bird found on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until it was hunted to extinction, because, apparently, of its lack of fear of human beings. When sailors and colonists came to the island in the 16th and 17th centuries they discovered that it was very easy to catch and kill, a characteristic which gave it its name: dodo comes from Portuguese duodo, meaning ‘simpleton’. By the end of the 17th century the dodo had died out. Its fate prompted the expression as dead as a dodo, ‘completely dead or extinct’. See also dead
Definition of dodo in US English: dodonounˈdoʊdoʊˈdōdō 1An extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century. Raphus cucullatus, family Raphidae. See also solitaire (sense 4) Example sentencesExamples - A giant flightless bird like the dodo is on the extreme end of avian evolution.
- The dodo species consisted of three flightless branches - the dodo of Mauritius, the solitaire of Reunion island, and the Rodriguez solitaire that lived on tiny Rodriguez island.
- One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird.
- The tam is thought to have evolved to survive passage through the gullet of the island's biggest, flightless bird, the dodo.
- First described by explorers around 1600, the dodo was extinct fewer than 80 years later.
- 1.1informal An old-fashioned and ineffective person or thing.
Synonyms fogy, conservative, traditionalist, conformist
Phrases (as) dead as a (or the) dodo 1informal Dead (used for emphasis). - 1.1No longer effective, valid, or interesting.
the campaign was as dead as a dodo Example sentencesExamples - While the League's television bid might now be as dead as a dodo, there are some vital facts that any future television deal-makers will find interesting to pore over.
- What does he say now that the social entrepreneur scheme is as dead as a dodo?
- Underlying this evolution of a new journalistic hybrid is the conviction that traditional photojournalism, as practiced since the days of Matthew Brady, is as dead as the dodo.
- Dreams of a secular India, where the commanding heights of the economy are in the public sector, are as dead as a dodo.
- Thank God the idea of regional assemblies is now as dead as a dodo.
- I feel full-blown £20,000-a-year constables are not going to be widely used on foot patrols because top brass officers think that type of policing is dead as the dodo.
- It was a final flurry worth waiting for and made all the more remarkable after a dead as a dodo first half.
- In fact, the upstairs bar was as dead as a dodo, but the downstairs bar, facing the diners, was even more convenient.
- Besides far-fetched ideas like taxing everyone for authors rights, or technically blocking filesharing, or a major government crackdown on filesharing, the story is basically dead as a dodo.
- Also bear in mind that this region is as dead as a dodo at night.
Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese doudo ‘simpleton’ (because the bird had no fear of man and was easily killed). Compare with dotterel. |